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Great Firewall Becomes Greater
Jay writes "This article on Yahoo! mentions China's new restrictions on websites as of September 1st. Apparently it's more advanced and doesn't censor the entire webpage, just portions. It also forwards requests for search engines, like google, to less effective search engines. They also mention that this might just be temporary during a Communist Party Congress. Anyone have a mirror?"
A different AP article spins things slightly differently, emphasizing that Google is apparently no longer blocked in China and mentioning the selective blocking of web content only in passing.
LOL, sorry, I just had to say that.
Here's a mirror.
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You argue that government is the source of all values, but if that were the case, we would never have grounds to object to anything that government does, no? So I guess we'll never hear you complain about DMCA, or any other law you don't like -- since in your weird world-view where government is the source of values, it is you who are wrong if you don't like something the government does.
More generally, your argument falls into a maze of self-contradiction. Was slavery `right' until the civil war, and then it magically became `wrong'? What about all those people who fought to outlaw slavery? Were they misguided lunatics before the civil war who magically became visionaries afterward? What a line of bull...
No, your arguement here is one of those ideas that is, to paraphrase George Orwell, so dumb that only an intellectual could believe it.
You're a fucking clueless moron.
If you could find someone willing to fuck you, you would be a "fucking, clueless moron." Unless you've found a woman of incredibly low standards, you're only batting two out of three.
China's not the problem, here, not Cisco.
Bullshit. It's assholes like you that are the problem. Anything for a buck. If Al Qaeda wants to buy guns, ammo, and the components to make chemical and biological weapons, some greedy dick like you will sell the items to them and then disclaim all responsibility. If you thought that there was a market among pedophiles for crotchless panties in children's sizes, you'd be selling them. In fact, you probably just read that and thought it sounded like a great business plan.
Some of us have ethics. Don't get pissed off at us just because we have something you don't.
Ass
Well at least you signed your posting.
September 11 happened _because_ of the US oil-based middle-east policy.
Bzzzt, wrong answer, thanks for playing. This is not why Mr. bin Laden says he attacked us -- he states that his grievance is with the nature of our society and with a string of perceived grievances stretching back over five hundred years. But perhaps you know something about his motivations that he does not?
China has indeed, according to your own CIA, supplied arms to "terrorist nations", as you like to call them.
While it is true that China has served as an arsenal for some remarkably nasty states, it is not nearly the immediate threat that Iraq is. In contrast to China, Iraq has close ties to the specific groups which already murdered 3,000 of our citizens a year and two days ago (and more before that), and is working to provide them with some very nasty weapons of mass destruction.
Not that I disagree with your idea that we should be tougher on China, but right now we have bigger fish to fry.
I support the Palestinians. So would you if you cared to open your eyes [electronicintifada.net]
Of course, considering that your sig links to a site which calls Louis Farrakhan `wise' and `balanced', and which celebrates murder-suicide bombings, I suppose no one here expects a well-reasoned position from you.